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Section 1.5.3 Line Counting
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Program
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.. literalinclude:: cprogs/sec_1.5.3_line_counting.c
   :language: c

Explanation
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This Program counts input lines. The program does that counting by setting a
variable nl to 0 in the beginning.  As the program one character at a time in
the while loop  ((c = getchar()) != EOF) till the EOF.  If the character is
newline character '\n' the number of lines variable is incremented, ++nl. At the
end, the number of lines, nl, is printed.

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